this is more than
sick. police and
the planet and your
mind so new
to it. purple hand
towel under the hair
dryer. radios. you
show them
your plastic
firetruck; where
the ladder
broke playing
rescue ...
brother— by em fowler
LAR Online, Poetry
Crystal
All is still. A flock of fallen leaves,
golden brown, soak in sunlight.
Chalky clouds hang from the cobalt sky.
Frost-jeweled flowers.
Crisp, green pine—the treetops
needle skyward and copper ...
Three Poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
LAR Online, Translations
Review by Kate Carmody
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
One World, February 2020.
$27.00; 224 pp.
ISBN: 978-1984820365
In Minor Feelings, poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong ...
Review: Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Before the Airport
The estuary’s flat today blue as
the eyes you’ve turned from me The moments pass
restrained outside the hours whole lives arcing
over us and our torn bloom ...
Three Poems by D.S. Waldman
LAR Online, Poetry
Work: My wife, Sam, converts her in-person African American literature course at the University of Houston into an online one, making decisions about how to do group presentations when the class will not be in the same ...
What We Do in Quarantine By Zach Jacobs
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review by Bryan Miller
A Beginning at the End
Mike Chen
Mira Books, January 2020.
$26.99; 400pp.
ISBN: 978-0-77830-934-5
Now is exactly the time for Mike Chen’s brand of pandemic novel. Much how his ...
Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Book Reviews, LAR Online
for Jon Tribble (1962-2019) and Allison Joseph
“I just had my seismic sense implants removed [from my feet]. I’ve been sensing
earthquakes for the last 7 years … and I’m now feeling phantom ...
Elegy with Aftershocks, Late and Soon by Jennifer Richter
LAR Online, Poetry
Aquatic Centre
Stretched on the bed you sometimes see forms,
curves entering and spirals escaping.
Transparent organs up high open out
and become a soft line chasing itself,
cleaning breath from dark colours—blood ...
Aquatic Centre by Maria Borio
LAR Online, Translations
Review by Roy White
Rue
Kathryn Nuernberger
BOA Editions, April 2020.
$17.00, 99 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-942683-97-1
I’ve read that torturers come to like their work and any
of us could, because we don’t ...
Review: Rue by Kathryn Nuernberger
Book Reviews, LAR Online
